Promoting the usa of ESI Funds for Roma inclusion

Partnership principle

Use of opportunities offered by existing thematic groups and networks

, both at national

and European level, addressing aspects related to the objectives of the programme to

inform and involve relevant stakeholders.

Capacity-building of relevant stakeholders and beneficiaries

to promote their active

participation.

The action plan developed within the framework of the

Spanish

Social Inclusion and Social

Economy OP

to improve the implementation of the ESF includes measures to promote

the capacity-building of bodies and beneficiaries. It also establishes a series of actions

specifically focused on the improvement of the governance, including the improvement of

collaboration or the development of measures of information and visibility.

Actions to

support and increase the engagement and participation of the target groups

at local level.

Czech Republic

, both the

Employment OP

and the

Integrated Regional OP

support and

develop participatory working methods with the target groups as well as community social

work with the aim of increasing the engagement and participation of socially excluded

people in prevention and decision-making processes at local level.

Establishing criteria for promoting participation and partnership.

For example, some

countries define relevant aspects related to involvement in documents such as the

applicant guidance; others define, in the context of implementation of individual

actions, criteria for the evaluation of project proposals which promote the partnership

principle.

Other models facilitating and promoting the involvement of relevant stakeholders

such as the ones established by

existing tools such as ITIs, CLLD...

The implementation mechanism of the

Slovak

Integrated Regional OP

is a model of regional

integrated territorial strategies (RITS), the basic strategic documents for the implementation

of integrated territorial investments (ITI). Building upon the principles of partnership and

a ‘bottom-up decision-making’, all relevant stakeholders from various sectors participate in

strategic planning and management on the European, national, regional and local levels.

Stakeholders engaged in the preparation and implementation of RITS are, whether as a

whole in form of partnership councils or individually, entrusted with competences related to

the preparation of a given RITS, its implementation in form of identification (selection) of

project concepts that are to be implemented in its territory, its monitoring, evaluation, etc.